how to successfully launch an app and be noticed
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The process of successfully launching an app and be noticed between the million other apps.TRANSCRIPT
Jan Willem Alphenaar (1969)Eindhoven - The Netherlands
Public speaker, writer and blogger
My phone history
My tablet history
Content in this presentation
✓ Origin of apps
✓ Platforms and Apps
✓ Launch and promotion
✓ Tips!
Where it all started
Nerd since I was 11 years old
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My first computer
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Compu/ng used to be a nerd-‐thing
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My first Internet Experience
The iPhone 1 had more computing power than NASA usedfor the Apollo Mission
Watching TV was a social activity
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Hang out from outer space
Compu/ng is no longer a nerd hobby -‐ It’s a lifestyle
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We all have the world in our pocket
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Something special happened in 2007
This was what the world had been waiting for
First buyers became heroes
1 million sold the first weekend!
5 million sold in first weekend
Old heroes have died
Old heroes have died
A new hero was born
Apple VS AndroidApple Android
Apps 650.000 600.000
Smartphones 17% 68%
Tablets 68% 30% - groeiend
56% verwijdert apps die niet
gebruikt worden
So how to make sure you’re seen?
It’s split up in three fases
Before Launch
The Launch
After Launch
Before the launch✓ Describe your target audience
✓ Determine your definition of success
✓ Beta testers
✓ Promo video
✓ Press moment - media event
✓ Sneak preview for media and influencers
Target audience
✓ Solid definition - demographic en geographic
✓ Media analyses for audience
✓ Questionnaire on website(s)
What is success?
✓ How many downloads?
Beta testers
✓ Bloggers
✓ Online influencers
✓ Famous people, industry leaders, artists
Promo video
✓ Create an Buzz
✓ Create desire and need
✓ Engagement
✓ Build your audience
Images and screenshot
✓ Crystal and clear
Press
Pick your media
✓ Local
✓ National
✓ Global
Don’t forget the websites and bloggers!
Pick your moment
✓ Keep the calendar in mind for other events
✓ Good location, time and date
✓ What makes it interesting for the press to visit?
Sneak preview
✓ Give media and influencers a preview version just before the launch.
At the launch (party)
✓ Press, bloggers and influencers
✓ Official launch (choose an important person)
✓ Make it a party
✓ Use Google Hangout for live broadcasting
After the launch
✓ Keep in touch with press and media
✓ User Feedback
✓ Promote using social
Communicate results
✓ Successes
✓ Numbers of downloads
Use the users
✓ Testimonials on your site and in the app stores
✓ Listen to the feedback for future developments
Promote using Social
Most important is your Launch
And the road towards it And afterwards
Jan Willem Alphenaar (1969)Eindhoven - The Netherlands
Public speaker, writer and blogger